Circles within circles, worlds within worlds,
the 'O' (or 'Au' en francais) has a long and storied history.
In fact, (en anglais), you can't spell 'story' without 'o' or 'history' without 'story'
and so it goes, an ever-widening gyre
in which the 'o' establishes its born-to-glory provenance
as the crown jewel of vowels and all that they encompass.

In the world of gongs, nowhere is this whirlpool of symmetry more solidly embodied than in the 14" Chau on the Au Courant stand.

As you can see above in the phot-O, the fabled 'o' begins in the center of the gong, much as a "bull's-" (or for o's purposes "cow's-") eye and expands outward, as ripples in a pond, culminating in the Au Courant Stand itself,
a sort of punctuation, open to interpretation.